Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake ©
1986. The Soviet Union realizes that it is heading for an inevitable major economic collapse, and its war in Afghanistan can no longer be sustained. The Soviet Union withdraws all of its forces from Afghanistan, and slowly starts the downsizing of many of its other overseas ‘projects’. This will set into motion the events that are yet to come.
1986. AAI Corporation, Israel Aircraft Industries RQ-2 Pioneer unmanned aerial vehicle system.
1986: The Year in Review
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January 1986
January 1986. D
February 1986
February 1986. D
March 1986
March 1986. D
April 1986
April 1986. D
26 April 1986. A nuclear accident is just barely avoided at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The near catastrophe causes a major renovation of Soviet procedures and regulations concerning Nuclear Power production as well as a major overhaul of the Soviet designs of nuclear power plants.
May 1986
May 1986. D
June 1986
June 1986. D
July 1986
July 1986. D
August 1986
August 1986. D
September 1986
September 1986. D
11 October - 12 October 1986. The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in the famous house of Höfði in Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, on 11-12 October 1986. The talks collapsed at the last minute, but the progress that had been achieved eventually resulted in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.
October 1986
October 1986. D
November 1986
November 1986. D
December 1986
December 1986. D
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